Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 6, 2014
Ted Deinard is the CEO of ARC Group Worldwide, Inc.’s ARC Wireless, LLC, and President of Quadrant Management. Mr. Deinard has been President of QFMI since inception. Mr. Deinard was previously a director with Citigroup Global Markets — Citi — working with issuers of tax-exempt bonds in the U.S. At that position, he was responsible for the design, marketing, structuring, execution and maintenance of a broad portfolio of risk management, investment and credit products, including interest rate swaps, options, caps, floors, repurchase agreements, guaranteed investment contracts, rolling securities agreements, letters of credit, bridge loans and structured notes. During his 12-year tenure at Citi, Mr. Deinard was involved in the execution of over $26 billion in derivative, reinvestment and lending transactions, serving both clients of Citi’s Public Finance Department as well as issuers, advisers and banks nationwide. Mr. Deinard was a Co-Chair of the SIFMA — formerly known as BMA — Municipal Financial Products Committee and was also a leading consultant to tax-exempt entities regarding the application of mark-to-market accounting standards for derivative instruments. Mr. Deinard received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. Profile
TWST: ARC Group is the overarching organization, and ARC Wireless is a part of that. Can you talk a bit about the ARC Group and about how ARC Wireless fits into it?
Mr. Deinard: